Aarogya Setu: How India’s Contact Tracing Tech Works? And How It Endangers Fundamental Rights

Written by kunal | Published 2020/05/29
Tech Story Tags: contact-tracing | contact-tracing-and-privacy | corona-contact-tracing-app | covid19 | coronavirus | coronavirus-tech | india | what-is-contact-tracing

TLDR The Government of India released their contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu. It was ranked the world’s fastest-growing app, overtaking Pokemon Go. The app takes just basic information like your name, phone number, age, sex, profession, travel history and whether or not you are smoker to register to the app. It also keeps a record of everyone's DiD you met. All collected data will be uploaded to servers of Government Of India, where they will be encrypted with a unique digital ID called your DiD.via the TL;DR App

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